> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 825](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120956) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2689-1) LSID 2689-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8008992) QID Q8008992 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Ferguson, William (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Ferguson, William (1820-1887), British civil servant in Ceylon, amateur botanist and entomologist. **Abbreviated name**: *Ferguson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ferguson*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]. *Exsiccatae*: *Algae ceylonicae* (nos. 1-144/5), set at [[Collection L|L]] and probably also at other herbaria listed by IH (series edited with Albert Grunow, 1826-1914). *Ref*.: IH 2: 194. - Urban, Gesch. Berlin-Dahlem 264. 1916. - Newton, Phycol. Bull. 1: 16. 1952. - Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 73. 1969. - Koster, Taxon 18: 552. 1969. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 536; BB p. 107; BM 2: 566; CSP 2: 592, 7: 652, 9: 848, 14: 969; DNB 18: 356; Jackson p. 396; PR 2871. - Anon., Nature 36: 430. 1887. - Trimen, J. Bot. 25: 320. 1887. - Balfour, Ann. Bot. 1: 403. 1888 (bibl.) - Boulger, *in* Trimen, Handb. fl. Ceylon 5: 375. 1900. - Burkill, Chapt. hist. bot. India 238. \[index\]. 1965. #### Composite works Contributed largely to Thwaites, *Enumeratio plantarum zeylaniae*. #### Eponymy *Fergusonia J*. D. Hooker (1873).